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beetle. A mangled prothoracic shell and the empty chitinous 
body cylinder with the outspread lower wings is all that is left 
of a Scolytus major beetle six minutes from the moment it was 
captured alive. I have seen three such eaten successively, 
and of 20 beetles put in with four Clerids only the above-men- 
tioned portions remained when the box was inspected about 34 
hours afterwards. As has been already said, the resemblance 
between this insect and the tiger in their methods of rushing 
upon, seizing and starting to feed upon, their prey is remarks 
able, the difference being that the insect is more cruel than the 
mammal since it makes no pretence of killing the bark-beetle, 
but commences on it whilst it is alive and kicking, often bring- 
ing forward its middle pair of legs to assist in holding its strug- 
gling prey. 
This insect is polygamous, excessively so, and in the case 
of some species kept-for several days and fed daily with bark 
beetles of various kinds, I was able to note that whenever 
the one male, which was kept with three females with this purpose 
in view, was not actually eating a bark-beetle or searching for 
one to eat, he was pairing with one or other of the females. 
I have not as yet been able to ascertain how long these beetles 
live in this stage of their life history, but it is this excessive 
polygamy and the larve of all sizes to be found in the bark- 
borer’s larval galleries that leads me to consider that the beetle’s 
life is of some duration, or that at any rate beetles will be found 
from spring to autumn more or less continuously. 
To sum up my observations on the habits of the 6 I may say 
that, when not eating or searching for bark-beetles, it is pairing 
and vice versd, andthe 9, at any rate up to the time she com- 
mences egg-laying, appears to be an equally large and voracious 
feeder. 
Locality from where reported. 
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The insect was discovered in the forests near Neota and 
Pajidhar in Tehri-Garhwal, North-West Himalayas (Jaunsar 
Division). Elevation between 7,00c to 8,000 feet. 

